Provider insights about palliative care barriers and facilitators: Results of a rapid ethnographic assessment

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 309-314

  Goepp, Julius G ^a   Meykler, Simon ^b   Mooney, Nancy E ^b   Lyon, Claudia ^b   Raso, Rosanne ^b   Julliard, Kell ^b  

^a Lupine Creative Consulting Inc   (United States)

^b LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion of innovation; Ethnography; Palliative care; Qualitative methods; Rapid ethnographic assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MASS COMMUNICATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 49749147446     PISSN: 10499091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049909108319265     Document Type: Article

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